"cleanser" for SQLite and UTF

[Dr. Hawkins]

I've really never paid much attention to UTF; 7 bit ASCII is fine for
everything I've ever needed to do (save immigration forms, but that was
handled by someone else's software).

Is there a "cleanser" hidden somewhere in livecode that converts arbitrary
text to plain old boring (and those SQLite-able) text? ("UTF" itself yields
no dictionary hits . . .)

-- 
Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
(702) 508-8462